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Feather is the name of a previous shared Perl 6 development server. The original machine was sponsored by Convolution, and subsequent hardware upgrades were sponsored by The Perl Foundation, Stichting Perl Promotie Nederland (Dutch Foundation for the Promotion of Perl), and several individual contributors. Convolution continued to sponsor colocation and bandwidth, and basic administration. Software maintenance was mostly done by trusted users with sudo access.

Initially provided because using Pugs and GHC was relatively hard without the help of modern Unix-ish operating systems, feather later became a nexus of all kinds of Perl 6 related activities. It was used for file sharing, e-mail and IRC communication, and testing. Several Perl 6 websites were hosted on feather. Some people used it as their main shell environment for working on Perl 6.

Requesting access to feather

Feather's main goal was supporting Perl 6 development. This was not limited to the Perl 6 language design, but also included work on all the Perl 6 implementations, and Parrot. Modules and programs written in Perl 6 could also have their home on feather, if their authors worked with the Perl 6 community to report and resolve bugs.

Anyone who wanted to work on any of these projects, could request an account by e-mail to Juerd, in which they state at least their full name and why they want access. New accounts were generally created within a few days.

Hardware

Feather used to be based on the following hardware:

Intel Core2 Duo E6550

4 GB RAM

3 disk RAID 1, 160 GB S-ATA300

Software

Feather was divided into Xen virtual machines, or "domains". Without further specification, "feather" refers to either the entire machine, or to "feather1", the virtual machine with semi-public shell access.

Virtual machines

Hostname

Purpose

Operating system

Not in use any more

feather0

Xen Domain-0

Debian

Not in use any more

feather1

Very diverse

Debian

Not in use any more

feather2

Stable server platforms, like websites, SVN repositories

Debian

Not in use any more

feather3

Public eval mechanisms, like runpugs and evalbot

Debian

Not in use any more

(Feather used 32 bit Linux.)

Created by Juerd Waalboer on Mar 16 5:09pm.Updated by timonator@hidden on Jan 1 8:24am.